Superquadra
The performance SUPERQUADRA tells the story of great utopias and the end of architecture.
In the futuristic Super-Quadra 67 building complex, Oscar N. begins to make his own architectural improvements. Little by little, the building mutates, while other residents also begin to give shape to their own interests.
SUPERQUADRA is a one-hour live video performance. The stage is taken up by a landscape of sets, miniatures and models. Puppets and actors act in front of cameras and tell the story of Super-Quadra 67. At the same time, the story is intertwined with documentary material of past utopias and planned cities.
An atmospherically dense composition of different means is created. The live animation film interweaves views of the apartment complex with computer simulation, texts and effects. The result is a multi-view collage that spreads out before the audience on a curved panoramic screen.
SUPERQUADRA shows the construction of a city, the making of a film, and a research on the question of how architecture plans society and how society designs architecture. The work on the material takes place before the eyes of the viewers. At the same time, each film image is connected to the moment of its production: living spaces and city views are constructed on stage and manipulated in front of the camera. The transformation of Super-Quadra 67 becomes a real event.
What I Did:
Designed the 10-channel speaker setup and the entire audio system for the show.
Live-mixed the actors' voices, all stems from the musician, and the input from the video station.
Designed soundscapes, sound effects, and Foley.
Recorded and edited the narrator's voice.
Performed the sound design layer live to the screenplay.
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30.08./01. + 02.09.2017 Treibstoff Theatertage Basel
21. + 22.09.2017 Wunder der Prärie Mannheim
24.–26.10.2018 Mousonturm Frankfurt
15. + 16.11.2018 Fast Forward Festival – Staatsschauspiel Dresden
9.09.2019 Fritz-Wortelmann Preis in Bochum
28. + 29.11.2019 BAUWHAT? Festival – Staatstheater Darmstadt
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Concept & Implementation: Jost von Harleßem, Hanke Wilsmann
Figure play: Cali Kobel
Setdesign: Ben Goossens
Music: Philip Albus
Sound Design: Rupert Jaud
Equipment, Puppeteer Friederike Schmidt-Colinet
Further texts: Dietmar Dath
Narrator: Fredrik Jan Hofmann, Dietmar Dath
Puppet Costumes: Melchior B. Tacet
Puppet mechanics: Ingo Mewes
Production: Heidrun Schlegel -
A co-production of: Treibstoff Theatertage Basel, F. Wiesel GbR, Fleetstreet Theater Hamburg
Sponsored by: Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt, Rudolf-Augstein-Stiftung, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Lumitronix GmbH, Stiftung für Radio und Kultur Schweiz, sowie der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung zur Förderung junger Künstler as part of the Ponto Performance Prize 2017, a cooperation project with the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and the Hessischen Theaterakademie.
About the sound design